Skeleton Builder Tools

A skeleton builder tools are tools that takes a directory skeleton, copies over its directory structure to a target folder and uses a template engine to dynamically generate the files.

In alphabetical order:

• Cookiecutter

  • uses Jinja2 template engine.
  • config file can be in either json and yaml formats.
  • Tested for use with Python 3.3, 2.7, 2.6, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

  • Extremely popular, with over 30 community contributed templates available for Python, Django, Flask, JavaScript, Ruby, C, Open Stack, and HTML.

  • List of Full feature set

  • 3rd-party: [cookiedough](https://pypi.org/project/cookiedough/) GUI browser/installer with ~4150 cookiecutter templates.

• django-admin.py startproject

  • (limited to Django framework)

• Echafaudage

  • use tempita template engine

  • config file is in json format
  • specific feature : standalone file executable directly with python -c "$(curl ...)"

• mr.bob

  • use Jinja2 template engine
  • config file is in ini format

  • specific feature : pre, post hooks

• pcreate (limited to Pyramid framework)

• Paste Script

Limited to package creation

• python-packager

• modern-package-template (deprecated)